Thursday, February 10, 2011

Something Important That Has Always Bugged Me

Writing a blog on a regular basis can really change the way one thinks and acts. Normal people go through life being somewhat annoyed by this or that and then moving on. I, however, have a place to piss and moan about everything and anything my heart desires. I suppose I might carry around less anger because I let it out on a regular basis here. That's good. But I also whipped out my phone to take pictures of a deli meat package while making the kids' lunches this morning. That's just weird. I was already weird enough and it would seem that maintaining this blog is making me more so. Ah well, what's a weirdo to do? Roll with it, I guess.

Anyway, here's what has bugged me for a very long time:

You know these types of lunch meat packages that say "resealable" on one difficult-to-peel corner? I have NEVER been able to get that corner to truly re-seal. It will kind of stick back closed, but it invariably lets go again soon after.

Has anyone, ever, gotten one of the packages to do what they say they can do? I highly doubt it. Let me know if you have. Now that plastic zipper bag technology is widely available, why do packagers still use this method? So you waste more food and have to buy more? Maybe, I guess.

Wow. I am so sorry for wasting precious seconds of your life with this. I'll get back to wonderful bikes and cycling and leaves and trees ASAP, I promise.

7 comments:

In the food and household products of today I find that almost nothing works. Resealable packaging using glue never works, resealable zip lock tears next to the ziplock. Tear along dotted line never does. Toilet paper and paper towels tear in the middle instead of at the perforation. Many screw off lids require channel lock pliers. Simply getting the bag in the cereal box open requires tools now. I could go on and on. "Nothing works" is said a lot around here about good ideas that don't work.

While I can't say it's actually true, I won't say it isn't. Namely that the USA sends all the defective resealable stuff up north to Canada so that the ones that work can be kept for our own use. Rantwick is getting perilously close to discovering a great secret. I've even heard that Kennedy got bumped off because he didn't like the original distribution plan.